A Passing Glimpse 2011
The green one is my blog from 2011 in book form. When I started my blog in January of 2011, I was counting on finding a way to print it. Easier said than done but Austin helped me find a site (blog2print) to work with and it's done! I hope to improve my final product for next years book but I'm satisfied with this first one.
A Farmer's Alphabet of Stories
The original book, A Farmer's Alphabet, is the collection of woodcut prints done by Mary Azarian for the Department of Education of the state of Vermont to commemorate the farming way of life that has all but disappeared. One day last summer, Mom happened to notice this book on my dining table and flipped through it. Her comment was, "I could tell you a story for practically every picture in this book." Well, that was all that was needed to launch the two of us into a serious writing project. During the fall we spent time, Mom telling and me typing stories from her childhood growing up on a farm. It was "more fun than a barrel of monkeys!" We bought 5 copies of the book (one for Mom and each of her kids), printed out Mom's stories and taped them into the each book. The book is put together with simply one full page print on the right-hand page and no other text than the one word that goes with that letter of the alphabet. The left-hand side was completely blank - the perfect place for us to tape a story for each letter.
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